Some of you seem to be enjoying my Neverland game for children, which you can find in the Downloads section. Jo Ann Montgomery tells me she likes it, but she wanted it in a smaller format than the PDF. She kindly took it upon herself to convert the file into text and reformat it. I’ve posted the RTF (Rich Text …
Authority RPG Release Date
The fine folks at Guardians of Order have posted more information about the upcoming The Authority Role-Playing Game, including a release date: April 26. You can find the official buzz here
Back to School
This Friday, February 27, I’ll be at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, appearing on a panel at the annual summit meeting for the Wisconsin Alliance for Arts Education. It’s at 1:30 PM in the Student Union. The topic is “What Do They Know About Learning, Kids, and Games?” Tim Gerritsen, my boss at Human Head Studios, will be there …
Brave New World After All
I got an e-mail last week that asked if I could start writing a bit about Brave New World (the roleplaying game I designed back in 1999) instead of making people wait indefinitely for the long-promised PDF that would reveal all of the setting’s secrets. It was a great idea, and I’m only sad I didn’t think of it first. …
Human Head and Green Ronin
The big news of the week is a deal that I’ve been working on at my day job with Human Head Studios for the past couple months. In short, Green Roninhas agreed to publish the adventure games that Human Head produces. If you’re interested in the full press release, you can find it here.
Spiritkeeper Release Date Change
Apparently The Secret of the Spiritkeeper is slated for an August release. The date currently on Wizards’ website is from the original plan, before they decided to release the first and second books in the series at once. This is good news, as it should give Wizards more time to rev up the marketing machine. They have plans for a …
Comment Spam
I got my first bits of spam in the comments sections over the past week. Unless, of course, I number Levitra sales reps and online gambling casinos in my readers. I blocked the offending IPs, but I’m told this sort of thing may get bad. Movable Type 3.0 is supposed to have some powerful tools to fix this sort of …
d20 and Me
A while back, Jon Leitheusser (currently of WizKids) asked me to write an essay about my opinion of the d20 System. I did, and he published as the last page of issue #2 of his Campaign Magazine. I edited it a bit to bring it up to date, and “What I Think of the d20 System” is now available in …
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More Awards
The awards season seems to have hit the adventure gaming industry full on. As I mentioned earlier, GameWyrd.com recently opened voting on its Weird GameWyrd Awards. The Redhurst Academy of Magic has been nominated as “The RPG or Supplement Most Likely to Spark the Imagination.” Also, Pen & Paper just announced that it’s taking votes for its Pen & Paper …